¿Cómo prepararte mentalmente para una competencia?

Mantén la confianza y el enfoque. Controla tu mente y prepárate para ser el mejor, tú conoces tu cuerpo y sabes de lo que eres capaz. Dedica tiempo a visualizarte completando la competencia exitosamente y también utiliza técnicas como la meditación y la respiración profunda para reducir el estrés y la ansiedad. Establece estrategias y planea tu competencia, define cómo gestionarás tu esfuerzo durante la competencia para evitar el agotamiento prematuro y prepara tu cuerpo y mente para posibles desafíos o infortunios.

La carrera es un 90 por ciento mental y un 10 por ciento física. Investigaciones recientes han explorado la interdependencia entre el cuerpo y la mente, demostrando que es más exactamente 100 por ciento mental y 100 por ciento físico. En cualquier caso, no se puede negar el poderoso papel de la mente en el rendimiento. Las atletas mentalmente duras la quieren. La recompensa por la que están trabajando supera cualquier incomodidad o adversidad que experimenten. Las atletas mentalmente duras han preparado su mente tanto como su cuerpo. Ser dura mentalmente es asegurarse de que tu mente está equilibrada, fresca y libre de cargas. En resumen, primero hay que pensar en todo y luego centrarse en una cosa.

We must set ourselves a class of objectives both in the medium and long term to know where we are headed. These goals must be challenging for us but clearly achievable. Set before each competition or training, a goal that only depends on you. If you get very stressed before a competition, try to relax either with music, listening to your breathing, talking with your family about any other topic. Always keep your concentration. Fix your attention on that descent that is your turn now, on those series of hills that you like so little but how good it feels to do them. Enjoy it! Leave behind those negative thoughts that come to your mind. Better listen to the little angel who tells you that he loves to run, that you have been preparing for it for months and that he is having a great time. More and more athletes have a sports psychologist on their team to be able to better deal with all kinds of situations that arise both in training and in competitions. With this better management of situations and feelings, it will therefore be possible to continue enjoying to the fullest what we like the most, which is devoting our time to run in the mountains. Once the training sessions or the competition are over, it is always desirable that we unplug from the state of tension they produce. The possibilities are endless. Now you have some keys to mentally overcome the problem we raised: How to psychologically prepare for a race?